The Black Eyed Peas, I Gotta Feeling | Music Lifts

In the fifth edition of Music Lifts (2025), we’re uplifted by The Black Eyed Peas performing the fun and positive pop banger, “I Gotta Feeling.”

Welcome to Music Lifts , a column highlighting songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs exuding fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the fifth edition of Music Lifts (2025), we highlight “I Gotta Feeling” as performed by The Black Eyed Peas.

“I got a feelin’ / That tonight’s gonna be a good night / That tonight’s gonna be a good night / That tonight’s gonna be a good, good night.” WOO! Black Eyed Peas were dominant throughout the 2000s.  Their 2009 multiplatinum album, The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) won will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, and Apl.de.ap three Grammys.  One of the Grammys was for the most ubiquitous single from the album, “I Gotta Feeling” (Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals).  It spent 14 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.  Furthermore, the single has been certified diamond by the RIAA.  An entertaining record, it radiates with fun and positivity – all positive vibes!

The positivity is what makes “I Gotta Feeling” a premiere example of uplifting music – Music Lifts ! “I know that we’ll have a ball / If we get down and go out and just lose it all,” Fergie sings in the first verse, continuing, “I feel stressed out, I wanna let it go / Let’s go way out, spaced out, and losin’ all control.” Despite bad situations, particularly financially, BEP encourages us to relieve the stress and have a good time tonight.  Adding to the fun, is the refrain, where will.i.am asserts, “Fill up my cup, mazel tove / Look at her dancin’, just take it off / Let’s paint the town, we’ll shut it down / Let’s burn the roof.”  Hell yeah! Later, both will.i.am and Fergie encourage partying every day! “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Do it) / Friday, Saturday, Saturday to Sunday (Do it).” Ooh-wee! Maybe it’s too much partying, but, the collective wants us to have fun, not be ‘down in the dumps.’  Ultimately, Black Eyed Peas dropped a pop banger for all time with “I Gotta Feeling”.  David Guetta and Frédéric Riesterer produced an epic gem for BEP, NO CAP!

Black Eyed Peas // The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) // Interscope // 2009

Black Eyed Peas, I Gotta Feeling: Music Lifts No. 5 (2025) [: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Interscope; BD Jewel, Dave H, Jean-Daniel Francoeur, Joshua Brown, Vansh Mehta from Pexels; AcatXIo, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]